Smuggler Archive
Thread: TH, please respond.
Gungeun
Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:08 pm
#105
That is so much bull **edit**ing **edit**.
I cant believe they said that **edit**, will basically take them a year for those changes, wow, SOE is some **edit**ty ass company.
I pay monthly fee's for lies and decieves.
I hate to see EQ 2 launch and all the bull**edit** problems there, ugh.
Gungeun
Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:10 pm
#106
Im not even a smuggler, but after reading this, and all the other **edit** SOE has pulled from there asses, it makes me want to quit.
Hopefully WoW will be good until they fix SWG in general, but until WoW, il put up with this bull**edit**.
lemmmeigo
Tue Aug 03, 2004 3:18 pm
#107
TH, why be master smuggler? Nothing to smuggle....still!!! Still need two MS to buy faction!!!
The devs had better give us something in JTL (Like slicing engines or armor)<-------------That is what a smuggler would do. What do ya bet? Jedi or force skills will have an edge in space.
Somewhere in a boardroom people probably spoke of JTL bringing in x amount of people. And not fixing smuggler meant x amount would leave. They chose the higher number.
The devs had better give us something in JTL (Like slicing engines or armor)<-------------That is what a smuggler would do. What do ya bet? Jedi or force skills will have an edge in space.
Somewhere in a boardroom people probably spoke of JTL bringing in x amount of people. And not fixing smuggler meant x amount would leave. They chose the higher number.
Selko
Wed Aug 04, 2004 12:53 pm
#108
Heard a rumor that yes ships will be sliceable to reflect a smuggler upgrade. But I wouldn't count on it working, due the the fact not much we due does work.
Oh and a Bump...
LM
Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:23 am
#109
I am not surprised that TH has not responded to this thread. But my capacity for disappointment, which I keep thinking has reached its limit, is apparently boundless.
I am not surprised because there are plenty of examples of questions asked of SOE that remain unanswered.
For example, we (well, some of us) are still waiting for a response to a simple question regarding the functionality of the spice downer, which changed drastically (unannounced and not even in the patch notes!) sometime in MARCH 2004 and that effectively killed what little remained of the spice market after the chef revamp. You remember -- the HAM affected by the spice suddenly had to regenerate once the downer was over, which dangerously prolonged the downer's effect).
The question we asked back then (and very politely, multiple times since) was this: Are spices "working as intended" now, or is this a bug?
Our Correspondent, Caylin, was finallygiven the answer and then muzzled by SOE. He was told not to divulge the answer. At one point, when the "19 questions/answers" thing was going on, we even contemplated submitting this particular question in order to get an answer. How silly is that? Something that should have been in the patch notes and we have to BEG for an answer.
Well, here it is -- AUGUST 2004 --I think our answer has been given to us by default; no, nothing official, but no "fix" to the downer either, soI assume that spices are now working as intended. But that doesn't change the fact that this is a PERFECT example of the terrible communications problem SOE has with its subscribers, and specifically with the Smuggler Profession.
What practical reason is there for deliberately withholding this information from the very people it affects? There is literally NO EXCUSE for it. NONE.
I am a software project manager, and were *I* to withhold information on my software's features from the users of the software -- well. LOL. You can imagine how long I would last at it, and you can imagine how long people would keep using my software. But then, SOE seems to be a little different than most other companies in this regard. And yes, I guess gamers (I include myself) put up with a lot more than users of workplace software would.
Lylak Moon
Dakc
Sat Aug 07, 2004 3:59 am
#111
/bump
there is a time to respond to any thread.............................. and that time has passed, i will become a master smuggler then drop it same day, *sigh i had so many hopes 
....................... maybe snugglers should get force powers 
then we would get a revamp every week 
....................... maybe snugglers should get force powers then we would get a revamp every week
Dakc
Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:25 am
#113
as i say i work................. i dont get payed enough to spell correctly
/bump
specwar01
Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:18 pm
#116
(Warning this is my own opinion so read at your own risk)
What is saddest is you love the game so much that you will continue to pay for a broken game, broken system and an expansion to boot. They have promised things since beta and have started a trend of lies and misleading the people that actually care for this game. As I stated before and I state again I myself shall not continue to pour my hard earned money into something broken.
How can I continue to pay for something broken and justify it?Because its starwars?
No way!
Its exaclty that a bad relationship, we are the abused and they are the pimp daddies of gaming.
SOE "Sure baby, sugar daddy is getting you a revamp, dont sweat it baby."
Customer"You promise?"
SOE "Sure honey baby, with sugar on top"
Customer "ok here is my $15 a month"
Next month
SOE "Baby, the revamp is going to be pused back... just a little"
Customer "What do you mean?"
SOE "Honey baby sugar, we have alot of things going on..."
Customer "But you promised to do it, **edit**!"
SOE "Here baby, here is a nice new vehicle. Go get that and Ill get back to you."
Customer, "Ok but when are we getting the revamp"
SOE "We getting someone on it honey dont worry, just wait for the combat revamp and everything will be fine"
Customer goes and gets the almost impossibe vehicle to get by hitting the floor over and over and getting around a ship
SOE twiddles thumbs and things of what to say next.
Customer "We get the revamp yet>?"
SOE "Na baby, but for real we might have to push it back a year but we love you."
Customer curses under his/her breath, "here you jerk, here is my monthly subscription. Now when is it coming?"
SOE "after this cool expansion we got"
Customer "But the game aint fixed yet!!"
SOE "I knowwww... but check this baby suger... you can fly stuff and put cool stuff inside the ships."
Customer "really, but what about the revamp"
SOE "dont worry baby, its coming but after the expansion..."
Wash rinse and repeat!!! This will be the way customers will be treated by SOE. Unbelievalbe I know but this is whats happening. I call it the Video crack syndrom. Everyone had a dream of this game and its so close to it that you continue to hope. Until your dream of a great Starwars game is all but reachable.
Good luck guys its a hard pill to swallow but this is as accurate as I can see it....
Two accounts canceled, How many more until the DEVs wake up?
specwar01
Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:21 pm
#117
one more thing, there was a very similar post in the galactic civil war forum with words from the devs saying things that never happened too....
Just an FYI to all you misinformed customers or newbies that have actually invested in this very fast falling project.